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empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small theoretical literature suggests that the all-pay auction should … price or all-pay raises the most money. Our experiment suggests that both the all-pay and second price formats are dominated … by the first price auction. Our design also allows us to identify differential participation as the source of the …
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When a multi-plant firm must close one unit due to declining demand it can choose between two alternatives. On the one hand, the firm can announce a certain span of time in which the plants are evaluated according to relative performance with the least performing plant being shut down in the end...
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experiment reproduces this model in the laboratory by means of various treatments in which we alter the variance of the …
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Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …
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period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment … inequality aversion are (partially) controlled for via either the experiment design or the information collected during the … experiment. We find that the POUM hypothesis holds under alternative specifications, even when we control for individual fixed …
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experiment. First, a model is analyzed in which two agents simultaneously decide between a risky and a safe strategy and we allow …
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report on the results of an experiment designed to evaluate two distinct explanations for this phenomenon, indignation and …
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Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may, first, self-select into a …
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A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June 2008 in order to meet the main criticisms directed at existing introduction programs. Two primary innovations were introduced, flexible language instruction parallel with other...
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lead, we report the results of a two-stage public good experiment with endogenous timing. Even though it turns out to be …
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